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4 September 2019 https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/nia-summon-delhi-doctor-upendra-kaul-jammu-kashmir-terror-funding-1593626-2019-08-30 Very often by virtue of being who I am, I am able to get inner juicy details of happenings, things which due to the nature of Indian society are self censored, especially in times of reckoning like now. So while a few feel despondent that Dr Kaul, an eminent cardiologist, who… Read more

2 September 2019 One of the real issues we have as theorists is how people seldom have the courage to act upon their pet themes. For years, we have had suggestions about almost every thing that Mr Modi has done, discussed hotly in tea shops, in newspaper libraries in street corners and within families on… Read more

31 August 2019 I can, I get the drift! People have to take a charitable view of things. Or they naturally take a charitable view of things. You find a whole host of eminent or wannabe, who in the prehistoric days before Anno Domini 2014 would have filled our social media and TV debates with… Read more

30 August 2019 We still have no idea why normal college goers got India’s National Dates, Leaders and even basic Geography wrong. It would seem to me as a parent of a high schooler and as an avid educationist to be a colossal degree of incompetence at one level, and more disturbingly it would be… Read more

29 August 2019 The world is upside down, I recall reciting a poem as a keen student titled- ‘Topsy Turvey World’! Most of the trivia that the poet assumed would never come about, including a church on the sea have all come about after a fashion. The clearest indicator of how in acceptable personal space… Read more

28 August 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49470466 It seems too much of a coincidence for India’s RBI to transfer money from it’s reserves an amount through dividends and a new euphemism called transfer of surplus, which is exactly the same shortfall calculated from the appendages to the Bahikatha presented by India’s Finance Minister. It would actually seem to… Read more